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#aed1e8
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#aed1e8
RGB
174, 209, 232
OKLCh
84.3% 0.049 237.0°
CIELAB (D50)
81.8, -8.2, -15.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.2; on black, Lc -75.7. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 14.0 and 14.3 and 13.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.60:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.09:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.09:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5a7b90 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#aed1e8
protanopia
#cdcde8 · ΔE00 14.0
deuteranopia
#c8c8e9 · ΔE00 14.3
tritanopia
#c1c1ff · ΔE00 13.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChapel Blue at ΔE00 0.708: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chapel BlueΔE00 0.708 · #b0d2e7
- Gentle WindΔE00 0.994 · #abd0ea
- Polar SeasΔE00 1.148 · #accde2
- Frosty Snow CapΔE00 1.168 · #accde5
- EscapeΔE00 1.2 · #a8cde4
- Himalaya BlueΔE00 1.655 · #aecde0
- CieloΔE00 1.736 · #a5cee8
- Little PondΔE00 1.851 · #a6d1eb
- Marzena DreamΔE00 1.92 · #a6d0ec
- Holiday RoadΔE00 2.029 · #b1d1e2
- Blue RiceΔE00 2.066 · #b3d9f3
- Light Sky BusΔE00 2.07 · #afcfe0
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.